Rules are pretty simple: It’s Draft Day 2013 and you’re in charge of your team’s draft. You will have 5 hours to make your pick. The clock shuts off from 2 - 8 am ET. Picks are allowed during that time but the 5-hour time clock won’t resume until 8 am.
-- There is no trading in this draft.
-- The draft order will be set using the NHL standings on the day our draft starts.
-- There will be a non-weighted 30-team lottery with the winner moving up no more than 4 spots in the 1st round.
-- Once a team makes a pick they will PM the next team up to keep things moving.
-- If a GM misses two consecutive picks his teams will be autoed for the rest of the draft. You can resume making your selections by sending a PM to one of the commissioners that you'll be around for your next pick

Good news/Bad news for Columbus is that they get Elias Lindholm to go with Drouin. Unfortunately Jarmo Kekalainen dies of a joy aneurysm.

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I knew I was going to take a d-man at this pick.. it was just a matter of Zad or Rist. After taking Murray, an offensive dman, last year.. I figured I would go for size this year. For some reason, CSS has him at 30th?? I think we all know he's going well before that...

So many scouts are loving Zadorov lately, wouldn't be that surprised to see someone take him over Ristolainen in the actual draft. Good pick, not sure who I would take.

Yeah, it was a 50-50 choice for me. I think Risto may be the better player, but with Zadorov's size, I gave him the edge for what i'm looking for. Plus, what I've actually SEEN of him, I was more than impressed.

I like Zadorov an awful lot. His going top ten isn't the shocker, it's somebody else slipping out of the top six, that's surprising. Especially now that there is a team on the board that may need him less than 29 other teams out there.

I like Zadorov an awful lot. His going top ten isn't the shocker, it's somebody else slipping out of the top six, that's surprising. Especially now that there is a team on the board that may need him less than 29 other teams out there.

And this is part of the reason why I took Drouin and Zadorov where they are.. They're the unusual pick for who's available, but from draft history, anything can happen and that's what I wanted to bring in. What fun is it doing a predictable draft?! Changing it up like I did, yet keeping it realistic is I think what's going to keep this interesting.